A computational biologist's personal views on new technologies & publications on genomics & proteomics and their impact on drug discovery

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Turn Right on Main, Then Left at Chromosome 4

It's apparently been up since April, but I just stumbled on the Cambridge Genome Trail. Running down the main commercial spine of Cambridge from Harvard to MIT and through much of biotech country (but far enough away from my current office that I didn't see it sooner), the trail consists of large wrap-around banners on lampposts with descriptive text at street level.

The Boston area also has a permanent scale model of the solar system. I don't believe there is an atom or periodic table; perhaps they will show up in the future. Truly Quixotic would be to attempt to model the protein interactome of even a small creature -- too many interactions which are being added to too quickly!

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Dr. Robison spent 10 years at Millennium Pharmaceuticals working with various genomics & proteomics technologies & working on multiple teams attempting to apply these throughout the drug discovery process. He spent 2 years at Codon Devices working on a variety of protein & metabolic engineering projects as well as monitoring a high-throughput gene synthesis facility. After a brief bit of consulting, he rejoined the cancer drug discovery field at Infinity Pharmaceuticals in May 2009. In September 2011 he joined Warp Drive Bio, a startup applying genomics to natural product drug discovery. Other recurring characters in this blog are his loyal Shih Tzu Amanda and his teenaged son alias TNG (The Next Generation).
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